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Girlhood by Melissa Febos

48 reviews

emmacristina's review

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challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0


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meaglovesbooks's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75


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carriepond's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Girlhood by Melissa Febos is an essay collection about growing up in a female body that I picked up after reading two essay collections where Febos's essays were among my favorites. I am so glad I did because I consider this essay collection a must-read. 

Reading these essays was cathartic and made me feel seen deeply-- there were so many times that Febos articulated an experience or feeling that I had so perfectly that it was as if she had pulled it from deep within me and then voiced it better than I ever could. The pages of my copy are full of underlining, of sentiments that resonated, or were beautifully put, or that I wanted to return to again. I will be thinking about my favorite essays, "The Mirror Test," "Thesmorphia," and "Thank You for Taking Care of Yourself," for a long time, but the entire collection is truly wonderful.

I highly recommend this book.

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helinae's review against another edition

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The topic is familiar to me and I did not feel like reading another book about it. Would recommend if the general themes are unfamiliar.

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avasbookmark's review

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dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

3.75


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milanaradic's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25


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snowiceblackfruit77's review

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challenging emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0


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bashsbooks's review

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challenging emotional informative slow-paced

4.5

A great collection of essays on Being (Perceived As) A Woman Under Patriarchy and all the fucky wucky stuff that comes along with that. A little more binary than what I usually prefer, but Febos' level of nuance makes up for the generalizations. The tagline on my copy of the book suggests that it's a good read for women of all kinds - mothers, daughters, sisters - but I think men would benefit a lot by reading it as well.

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studiouspoppy's review against another edition

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

I really liked it, it wasn’t at all what I expected (probably bc I didn’t read what it was about before starting it), but a nice surprise. I don’t think it was that memorable, and the reason why I didn’t rate it higher, but it was really good and I’d definitely recommend it!

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kristen_spencer's review

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challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75


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